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...ages, the most important exhibit of T'ang Dynasty art treasures ever to be seen outside of China opened this week at the Los Angeles County Museum. To assemble the 385 irreplaceable art objects, ranging all the way from Buddhist sculpture to fragments of 1,200-year-old silk, the Los Angeles museum tapped the resources of more than 88 museums, dealers and collectors here and abroad, including the famed oriental collection of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology (see color pages). The total effect was as bedazzling as the golden phoenix with which...
...witnessed each year at the Cathedral of Naples, modern miracles run more to visions and apparitions-largely of the Virgin, and granted to the young. Examples: Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes (1858); the three children at famed Fatima, Portugal (1917); St. Catherine Labouré (1830), who heard the rustle of silk one night and received instructions from Mary herself about the miraculous medal that is now worn by hundreds of thousands. Stigmatists exist today who, like the first of them, St. Francis of Assisi, exhibit the wounds of Christ's crucifixion...
Tuesday at dawn, 24 hours after the airborne troops hit the silk, a force of 30,000 British commandos and French commando units, with tanks, stormed ashore and into Port Said and Port Fuad...
...emeralds, besides more ordinary pieces. At night Callas' favorite rite is to soak leisurely in the bath, steep herself in buckets of cologne, and then (after a careful weigh-in on the bathroom scale) to go to bed "feeling absolutely luscious." Perfumed, glowing and gowned in slinky silk, she lies awake late into the night-studying scores while husband
...every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from a young plum tree. "Oh God!" cried the emperor, his heart broken, when they brought her body to him. "Will this bring peace to my people...